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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 2 Aug 2020

      It's like just barely acceptable because it's a *character* thinking this in a *novel* And Winston is supposed to be this headass insufferable flawed hero you only really kind of like But now there's all these Facebook uncles saying it in *real life* Chanting it, even

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 2 Aug 2020

      You get that this is the exact same thing as the Ayn Rand quote about "A = A" right She said it a lot worse because she's a worse writer but the basic idea is the same There's a lot of overlap between their current fanbases

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    3. David Caffee‏ @ChaosTripStudio 2 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      How is that even possible? Oh wait, no one has ever actually read an Ayn Rand novel. I tried once. It hurt.

      2 replies 1 retweet 20 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 2 Aug 2020
      Replying to @ChaosTripStudio

      I genuinely think that when a socialist like Orwell writes a book that is as wildly popular with Republicans as 1984 is, it means that, as skilled a writer and a thinker as he may be, he done fucked up It's his mistake and his lefty fans need to own that

      11 replies 8 retweets 85 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 2 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @ChaosTripStudio

      Yeah he couldn't control what people did with his work or how the political landscape evolved after his death but holy shit If I were him and I came back to life and saw who was stanning my book I'd immediately die again

      3 replies 3 retweets 21 likes
    6. Spherical Time  🌈‏ @sphericaltime 2 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @ChaosTripStudio

      Reminds me that Fahrenheit 451 was written not about censorship but about how TV is bad.

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    7. Räv‏ @Eristae 2 Aug 2020
      Replying to @sphericaltime @arthur_affect @ChaosTripStudio

      Maybe. I got the impression (possibly incorrectly?) that this could have been a case of "author changed his mind" or "author came up with the idea after the fact."

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 2 Aug 2020
      Replying to @Eristae @sphericaltime @ChaosTripStudio

      The "TV is bad" message is not subtle AT ALL in the original book but I don't see it as this completely separate thing from the censorship part

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    9. Räv‏ @Eristae 2 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @sphericaltime @ChaosTripStudio

      It would be weird if it wasn't about censorship, though. Most arguements that I see against TV (both in stories and in more formalized arguments) don't involve outlawing books.

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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 2 Aug 2020
      Replying to @Eristae @sphericaltime @ChaosTripStudio

      As I read the book, it's about how "mass culture" (TV, movies, pop music, etc) give people instant gratification and destroy their capacity for nuanced, critical thought

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 2 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Eristae and

      Which then leads to a culture incapable of tolerating anything that makes them uncomfortable or they don't understand It's a more complex take than the usual "anti-censorship" take but not an unusual one

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 2 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Eristae and

          It's the core thesis of Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death, like in that book Postman basically names F451 as his favorite dystopia IIRC

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        3. Räv‏ @Eristae 2 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @sphericaltime @ChaosTripStudio

          Yeah, that's the take I got from it. In most of the "TV rots your brain" arguments that I encounter, no one needs to enforce it because it's so seductive. In F451, it was seductive, but there were also enforcers.

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